The New Guards

When people hear that I'm pro-life, they immediately assume that I'm a conservative. They happen to be right. I'm not embarrassed by my ideology, but I am sad that most people perceive the pro-life movement as limited to a single point on the ideological spectrum. I...

I am an ideologue. More specifically, I'm a conservative. I adhere to an ideology that treasures individual freedom and voluntary social morality. While some might use the term “ideologue” to degrade a belief system as dogmatic or self-righteous, I'm proud of the...

The current political climate and the many political discussions I find myself in have me constantly going back to fundamental principles and examining what I believe and why I believe it. There are so many labels that get thrown around with so many different meanings...

Richie addresses a fundamental misconception about our style of government. Next, is Trump on the right track to win Richie's vote in 2020? Finally, if you want to listen to awesome music by a band that won't back down from a conservative position, check out...

It goes without saying that the United States of America is not a direct democracy but a republic. More than that, as I showed with a new quote every day for literally months on Twitter, the Founders despised democracy. They called it, among other things, the “most...

The 50th episode! Thank you to everyone who's supported The New Guards in the last year and a half. Richie discusses how to understand the source of disagreements and examines the history of presidents who've nominated three or more Supreme Court justices in their...

No matter the claim, parties, jurisdiction, or legal issue, every legal proceeding in civil or criminal law has three basic components at its core: the law, the facts, and the application of the law to the facts. Everything revolves around these three pillars. One...

President Trump announced last week that he’s considering an executive order that would ban birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants. Can he do it? I have some thoughts about what the law should be, but let’s not talk about that right now. What...